Show Its It's ii Too Too Tho Bad T. T Tennyson Never Never- p Played Golf By HENRY McLEMORE United Press Sports Writer MIAMI MI MI Fin Flo Jan 13 Poet 13 Poet Alfred Alfred Al Al- fred Tennyson never played golf with Ma Maureen reen Orcutt Crews If It he had its it's a safe bet he ho never would have written that line lino Woman Woma l is the tho lesser man After fter Maureen had banged her seconds dead to the pin a few times while Alfred was beating about in the tho rough he ho would have havo paid off ott his caddie at the ninth and hurried off ott to make mako that line lino read Woman read Woman is the lesser Jesser man mafi man but dont don't take Jess less than a stroke a hole when youre you're playing em for dough I played 18 holes with Maureen Orcutt Crews yesterday y and lost everything the match my money my self respect my chivalry chiv aIry alry and my y only three seventy- seventy five cent golf balls balI I accepted the ma match ch with Maureen gladly for 1 1 had been decided decidedly pa top my game me meaning nl I iv was s shootIng shooting shooting shoot shoot- ing consistently In the low jUst o over a Only on Saturday Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- I had sunk a footer 14 on the home homo green to card 52 51 for tor and a sound victory over three very fine men golfers goiters A woman thought 1 I will bo be a soft touch oven even Is she zhe is a 8 champion cham cham- pion plon Aft After r women all are c champions champions cham cham- am- am only because they play with women When I walked to the tho first tee teo I agreed perfectly with Alfred Altred Tennyson in that Woman is the tho lesser man I II admit that 1 J was wa a bit shaken when Maureen knocked her drive straight down the fairway for yar yards s. s But I r comforted myself with tho the thought that it was WM Just a fluke that that it had to be because she didn't do the things one ono should do when when driving a ball th that t far She didn't waggle her club She I i lost the tho second third arid took no practice swings And she didn't have havo to run to the tho edge of at the of-the the tho tee to recover her balance after tho the swing All these es essentials essentials es- es were missing It was on this first first tee and just after afler Maureen had gotten off oft her drive th that t I lost my three seventy five cent balls I 1 knew I couldn't afford to let her out- out drive me even on one hole so I asked my caddie foX for a driver Now I 1 hadn't used a a driver for lor lorm m months having found a a. No 5 or mashie a 11 safer club off tho the tee Three times I swung and three balls went out of ot b bounds My fourth shot with the was satisfactorily straight and HO yards down clown tho the middle After this first hole my game gamo seemed to go to pieces and Mau- Mau reens reen's lucky shots tick with her r. r fourth and she won the fifth sixth seventh I lost tho the eighth but on on the tho ninth I 1 J gave VO her a ascare ascare scare when my rny drIve nearly cleared the w Water ter hazard 1 V was wa r using 0 a drug store drug store ball bali by this time rUme and after 10 lO o minutes of ot trying to to- fish it out Maureen lent mo mb one On n and wo we At the thc end of ot- the first nine nino we wo added up up- up our cards cards' and Maureen was was even par ar a n 35 If It my drive had bad cleared tho the water on the U c ninth ninth and my se second ond had reached the tho green and had 1 I sunk unk the tho putt 1 would have havo had a n 52 62 But the tho breaks seemed to be bc all ail Maure Maureen's ns n's sh She vas was ing well approaching well wll w lJ and putting well I n never never ver saw saw such h Juck luck for tor tora a woman I 1 did all u right on tho the back nine until we reached the yard twelfth Maure ri her luck still sUlI 4 with her banged one up on the green What did you usa uso for that shot 1 I inquired Inquire A five iron she answered This was hard for mo me to believe for tor I z had always used a No 2 iron on this holo hole and had never been as t far r as ns tho the traps guarding guarding guard guard- ing lag the approach to tim the the green Not to be bo outdone r I asked for tor formy formy my five Iron Something Something- must be wron wrong with m my five even th though ugh I hit nit is so hard I 1 had to torun torun torun run 10 steps instead of ot my usual five tive to keep from tram falling failing down it didn't go half halt as tar far far far-as as Maur Mau Mau- r reens As wo we came to the eighteenth green with me 17 11 down but still fighting tho the m man n I had beaten so 80 roundly the day before ca called from the practice green Hey champ Giving lessons to the ladies now eh |